פֶּה
mouth
‘mouth’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
H6310
Strong's Hebrew
peh
Transliteration
/peh/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
498
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
mouth
- mouth (of man)
- mouth (as organ of speech)
- mouth (of animals)
- mouth, opening, orifice (of a well, river, etc)
- extremity, end
- a weight equal to one third of a shekel, occurs only in 1Sa 13:21
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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Genesis 20 verses
- Genesis 4:11 פִּ֔י/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 8:11 בְּ/פִ֑י/הָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Genesis 24:57 פִּֽי/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."
- Genesis 25:28 בְּ/פִ֑י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 29:2 פִּ֥י n c ms cs He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
- Genesis 29:3 פִּ֣י פִּ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
- Genesis 29:8 פִּ֣י n c ms cs They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
- Genesis 29:10 פִּ֣י n c ms cs It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
- Genesis 34:26 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
- Genesis 41:40 פִּ֖י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."
- Genesis 42:27 בְּ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
- Genesis 43:7 פִּ֖י n c ms cs They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
- Genesis 43:12 בְּ/פִ֤י prep + n c ms cs and take double money in your hand, with the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.
- Genesis 43:21 בְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.
- Genesis 44:1 בְּ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 44:2 בְּ/פִי֙ prep + n c ms cs Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
- Genesis 44:8 בְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Genesis 45:12 פִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
- Genesis 45:21 פִּ֣י n c ms cs The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
- Genesis 47:12 לְ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Exodus 14 verses
- Exodus 4:12 פִּ֔י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
- Exodus 4:15 בְּ/פִ֑י/ו פִּ֨י/ךָ֙ פִּ֔י/הוּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Exodus 12:4 לְ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 13:9 בְּ/פִ֑י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 16:16 לְ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
- Exodus 16:18 לְ/פִֽי prep + n c ms cs When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
- Exodus 16:21 כְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
- Exodus 17:1 פִּ֣י n c ms cs All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exodus 17:13 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
- Exodus 23:13 פִּֽי/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.
- Exodus 28:32 פִֽי לְ/פִ֨י/ו כְּ/פִ֥י n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms prep + n c ms cs It shall have a hole for the head in the midst of it: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
- Exodus 34:27 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
- Exodus 38:21 פִּ֣י n c ms cs This is the amount of material used for the tent, even the Tent of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
- Exodus 39:23 וּ/פִֽי כְּ/פִ֣י לְ/פִ֛י/ו conj + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The opening of the robe in the midst of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
Leviticus 7 verses
- Leviticus 24:12 פִּ֥י n c ms cs They put him in custody, until the will of Yahweh should be declared to them.
- Leviticus 25:16 לְ/פִ֣י וּ/לְ/פִי֙ prep + n c ms cs conj + prep + n c ms cs According to the length of the years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
- Leviticus 25:51 לְ/פִי/הֶן֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fp If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Leviticus 25:52 כְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
- Leviticus 27:8 פִּ֗י n c ms cs But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.
- Leviticus 27:16 לְ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
- Leviticus 27:18 פִּ֤י n c ms cs But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
Numbers 42 verses
- Numbers 3:16 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
- Numbers 3:39 פִּ֥י n c ms cs All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
- Numbers 3:51 פִּ֣י n c ms cs and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 4:27 פִּי֩ n c ms cs At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them in charge all their burden.
- Numbers 4:37 פִּ֥י n c ms cs These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 4:41 פִּ֥י n c ms cs These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh.
- Numbers 4:45 פִּ֥י n c ms cs These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 4:49 פִּ֨י n c ms cs According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 6:21 כְּ/פִ֤י prep + n c ms cs "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation."
- Numbers 7:5 כְּ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."
- Numbers 7:7 כְּ/פִ֖י prep + n c ms cs He gave two wagons and four oxen to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
- Numbers 7:8 כְּ/פִי֙ prep + n c ms cs and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 9:17 וּ/לְ/פִ֞י conj + prep + n c ms cs Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.
- Numbers 9:18 פִּ֣י פִּ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.
- Numbers 9:20 פִּ֤י פִּ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they traveled.
- Numbers 9:23 פִּ֤י פִּ֥י פִּ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs n c ms cs At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept the charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 10:13 פִּ֥י n c ms cs They first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 13:3 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 14:41 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?
- Numbers 16:30 פִּ֨י/הָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:32 פִּ֔י/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
- Numbers 20:24 פִּ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
- Numbers 21:24 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Numbers 22:18 פִּי֙ n c ms cs Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
- Numbers 22:28 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
- Numbers 22:38 בְּ/פִ֖/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
- Numbers 23:5 בְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
- Numbers 23:12 בְּ/פִ֔/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?
- Numbers 23:16 בְּ/פִ֑י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
- Numbers 24:13 פִּ֣י n c ms cs If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?
- Numbers 26:10 פִּ֗י/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 26:54 לְ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.
- Numbers 26:56 פִּי֙ n c ms cs According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.
- Numbers 27:14 פִּ֜/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
- Numbers 27:21 פִּ֨י/ו פִּ֣י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
- Numbers 30:2 מִ/פִּ֖י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
- Numbers 32:24 מִ/פִּי/כֶ֖ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
- Numbers 33:2 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
- Numbers 33:38 פִּ֥י n c ms cs Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
- Numbers 35:8 כְּ/פִ֤י prep + n c ms cs Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
- Numbers 35:30 לְ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
- Numbers 36:5 פִּ֥י n c ms cs Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
Deuteronomy 20 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:26 פִּ֥י n c ms cs Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:
- Deuteronomy 1:43 פִּ֣י n c ms cs So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 פִֽי n c ms cs He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 פִּ֤י n c ms cs When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 11:6 פִּ֔י/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
- Deuteronomy 13:15 לְ/פִי לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.
- Deuteronomy 17:6 פִּ֣י פִּ֖י n c ms cs n c ms cs At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 17:10 פִּ֤י n c ms cs You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
- Deuteronomy 17:11 פִּ֨י n c ms cs according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 18:18 בְּ/פִ֔י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Deuteronomy 19:15 פִּ֣י פִּ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
- Deuteronomy 20:13 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
- Deuteronomy 21:5 פִּי/הֶ֥ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
- Deuteronomy 21:17 פִּ֣י n c ms cs but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
- Deuteronomy 23:23 בְּ/פִֽי/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
- Deuteronomy 30:14 בְּ/פִ֥י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
- Deuteronomy 31:19 בְּ/פִי/הֶ֑ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 מִ/פִּ֣י prep + n c ms cs It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
- Deuteronomy 32:1 פִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
- Deuteronomy 34:5 פִּ֥י n c ms cs So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.
Joshua 25 verses
- Joshua 1:8 מִ/פִּ֗י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Joshua 1:18 פִּ֗י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Whoever he be who shall rebel against your commandment, and shall not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good courage.
- Joshua 6:10 מִ/פִּי/כֶ֖ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp Joshua commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall you shout.
- Joshua 6:21 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 8:24 לְ/פִי לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
- Joshua 9:14 פִּ֥י n c ms cs The men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh.
- Joshua 10:18 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Joshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:
- Joshua 10:22 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me out of the cave.
- Joshua 10:27 פִּ֣י n c ms cs It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very day.
- Joshua 10:28 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:30 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:32 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
- Joshua 10:35 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
- Joshua 10:37 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein.
- Joshua 10:39 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king of it.
- Joshua 11:11 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
- Joshua 11:12 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.
- Joshua 11:14 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.
- Joshua 15:13 פִּ֥י n c ms cs To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
- Joshua 17:4 פִּ֤י n c ms cs They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
- Joshua 18:4 לְ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
- Joshua 19:47 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
- Joshua 19:50 פִּ֨י n c ms cs according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived therein.
- Joshua 21:3 פִּ֣י n c ms cs The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 22:9 פִּ֥י n c ms cs The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
Judges 13 verses
- Judges 1:8 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
- Judges 1:25 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs He shown them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
- Judges 4:15 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
- Judges 4:16 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
- Judges 7:6 פִּי/הֶ֔ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
- Judges 9:38 פִ֨י/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.
- Judges 11:35 פִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can't go back.
- Judges 11:36 פִּ֨י/ךָ֙ מִ/פִּ֑י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms She said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.
- Judges 18:19 פִּ֨י/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms They said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
- Judges 18:27 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
- Judges 20:37 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs The liers-in-wait hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
- Judges 20:48 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.
- Judges 21:10 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
1 Samuel 11 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:12 פִּֽי/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth.
- 1 Samuel 2:1 פִּ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
- 1 Samuel 2:3 מִ/פִּי/כֶ֑ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, By him actions are weighed.
- 1 Samuel 12:14 פִּ֣י n c ms cs If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God, [well]:
- 1 Samuel 12:15 פִּ֣י n c ms cs but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it was against your fathers.
- 1 Samuel 14:26 פִּ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
- 1 Samuel 14:27 פִּ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
- 1 Samuel 15:8 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
- 1 Samuel 15:24 פִּֽי n c ms cs Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
- 1 Samuel 17:35 מִ/פִּ֑י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.
- 1 Samuel 22:19 לְ/פִי לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
2 Samuel 8 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:16 פִ֗י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
- 2 Samuel 13:32 פִּ֤י n c ms cs Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 14:3 בְּ/פִֽי/הָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
- 2 Samuel 14:19 בְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;
- 2 Samuel 15:14 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.
- 2 Samuel 17:5 בְּ/פִ֖י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says.
- 2 Samuel 18:25 בְּ/פִ֑י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.
- 2 Samuel 22:9 מִ/פִּ֖י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
1 Kings 9 verses
- 1 Kings 7:31 וּ֠/פִי/הוּ וּ/פִ֨י/הָ֙ פִּ֨י/הָ֙ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth of it was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it were engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
- 1 Kings 8:15 בְּ/פִ֔י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
- 1 Kings 8:24 בְּ/פִ֛י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
- 1 Kings 13:21 פִּ֣י n c ms cs and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
- 1 Kings 13:26 פִּ֣י n c ms cs When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him.
- 1 Kings 17:1 לְ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
- 1 Kings 17:24 בְּ/פִ֖י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
- 1 Kings 22:22 בְּ/פִ֖י prep + n c ms cs Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 1 Kings 22:23 בְּ/פִ֖י prep + n c ms cs Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
2 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 2:9 פִּֽי n c ms cs It happened, when they had gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you. Elisha said, please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.
- 2 Kings 4:34 פִּ֨י/ו פִּ֜י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
- 2 Kings 10:25 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
- 2 Kings 23:35 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
- 2 Kings 24:3 פִּ֣י n c ms cs Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this on Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 12:23 כְּ/פִ֥י prep + n c ms cs These are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 12:32 פִּי/הֶֽם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 פִֽי/הוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Remember his marvelous works that he has done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
2 Chronicles 9 verses
- 2 Chronicles 6:4 בְּ/פִ֔י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 6:15 בְּ/פִ֛י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
- 2 Chronicles 18:21 בְּ/פִ֖י prep + n c ms cs He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
- 2 Chronicles 18:22 בְּ/פִ֖י prep + n c ms cs Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
- 2 Chronicles 31:2 כְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 35:22 מִ/פִּ֣י prep + n c ms cs Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn't listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
- 2 Chronicles 36:12 מִ/פִּ֥י prep + n c ms cs and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 בְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- 2 Chronicles 36:22 בְּ/פִ֣י prep + n c ms cs Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 1:1 מִ/פִּ֣י prep + n c ms cs Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
- Ezra 8:17 בְּ/פִי/הֶ֨ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [and] his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Esther 1 verse
Job 35 verses
- Job 1:15 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Job 1:17 לְ/פִי prep + n c ms cs While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Job 3:1 פִּ֔י/הוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 5:15 מִ/פִּי/הֶ֑ם prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- Job 5:16 פִּֽי/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.
- Job 7:11 פִּ֥/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 8:2 פִֽי/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- Job 8:21 פִּ֑י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.
- Job 9:20 פִּ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
- Job 15:5 פִ֑י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
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At its core, פה (peh) means “mouth.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 4:11. Spanning 460 verses in 35 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. From the same root come פאה, פיה and פם. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
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Strong's · 1890
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Modern gloss
mouth
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H6310 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 460
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 460 distinct verses.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #102
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 102 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 460 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 188 verses · 41%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 165 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 107 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Mouth 293×, Edge 31×, According 19×
- American Standard Version: Mouth 258×, Edge 26×, According 19×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mouth 199×, Mouths 40×, Command 32×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mouth 256×, Mouth of 152×, Mouths 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6310 across 496 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 74 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6310 across 494 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 94 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6310 across 423 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 58 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 56 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6310 across 493 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
17 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
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BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 17 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1.
- a. mouth, of man, organ of eating and drinking Gn 25:28 Ju 7:6 1 S 14:26, 27 Ne 9:20 Pr 19:24 = 26:15 +; fig. as finding things sweet Jb 20:12 ψ 119:103; fig. of earth Gn 4:11, swallowing Korah, etc. Nu 16:30, 32; 26:10 Dt 11:6; fig. also of She’ôl, וּפָֽעֲרָה פִיהָ Is 5:14, cf. ψ 69:16. e.g. Genesis 25:28
- b. external organ, וַיָּשֶׂם פִּיו עַל־פִּיו 2 K 4:34 Pr 30:20; of kissing 1 K 19:18 Ct 1:2; וַתִּשַּׁק יָדִי לְפִי Jb 31:27; cf. phr. שִׂים יָד עַל־פֶּה (of keeping silence) Ju 18:19 Mi 7:16 Jb 21:5, cf. 29:9; 40:4 Pr 30:32; of mocking triumph פָּעַר עָלַי בְּפ׳ Jb 16:10; הִרְחִיב פ׳ עַל ψ 35:21 Is 57:4, also רָחַב פִּי עַל 1 S 2:1. e.g. 2 Kings 4:34
- c. of י׳ in theoph., sending out fire 2 S 22:9 = ψ 18:9. e.g. 2 Samuel 22:9
- 2.
- a. much oftener, as organ of speech, of man: פ׳ speaks Gn 45:12 2 S 1:16 Is 9:16 Jb 9:20; 15:5, 6 ψ 37:30 +; speak בְּמוֹ־פִי Jb 19:16; open פ׳, אֶל־י׳ Ju 11:35, 36, abs. Jb 3:1; 33:2 +; shut פ׳ (be silent) Is 52:15, cf. חָשַׂךְ פ׳ Jb 7:11, and (of iniquity, personif.) קָפַץ פ׳ Jb 5:16 ψ 107:42; guard פ׳, Pr 13:3 (נָצַר), 21:23 (שָׁמַר), cf. שָׁמַר פִּתְחֵי פ׳ Mi 7:5, also ψ 39:2 (v. שׁמר); words, etc., are in (ב) mouth 2 S 17:5; 18:25 Dt 30:14 1 K 17:24; שִׂים דְּבָרִים בְּפ׳ 2 S 14:3, 19 Ex 4:15, also (God subj.) Nu 22:38; 23:12, 16 +; of utterance יָצָא מִפּ׳ Ju 11:36 Nu 30:3; 32:24 Jos 6:10 +; depart from mouth (cease to be mentioned) מוּשׁ מִפּ׳ Jos 1:8 Is 59:21, cf. נִכְרַת מִפּ׳ Je 7:28, לֹא יִשָּׁמַע עַל־פִּיךָ Ex 23:13; אִמְרֵי פ׳ Dt 32:1 words of my mouth, so Jb 8:2 ψ 19:15; 54:4; דִּבְרֵי פ׳ ψ 36:4 Ec 10:12, 13a; of agency, בְּפּ׳ by the mouth of 2 Ch 36:21, 22 = מִפּ׳ Ezr 1:1; דִּבֶּר פִּיו עִם־פִּיו Je 32:4 speak mouth to mouth (cf. 34:3 Nu 12:8); פ׳ = speech Is 29:13 ψ 49:14 Ec 10:13b; כְּבַד פ׳ Ex 4:10 heavy of speech (not eloquent); אֶהְיֶה עִם־פ׳ v 12, 15, i.e. aid thee in speaking; יִהְיֶה־לְּךָ לְפ׳ v 16 he shall be mouth for thee; מִפִּיו יִקְרָא אֵלַי Je 36:18, i.e. dictate; כָּתַב מִפּ׳ v. כָּתַב 1 b (3); bad qualities ascribed to it, עִקְּשׁוּת פ׳ Pr 4:24; 6:12; פִּי תַהְפֻּכוֹת 8:13; פֶּה חָלָק 26:28; אַל־תַּגְדֵּל פ׳ Ob 12, cf. Mi 6:12 Ez 35:13. e.g. Genesis 45:12
- b. as laughing Jb 8:21 ψ 126:2; panting 119:131. e.g. Job 8:21
- c. of God; his mouth speaks Is 1:20; 40:5 Je 9:11 +; he speaks בְּפ׳ 1 K 8:15, 34; wd. proceeds מִפּ׳ Dt 8:3 Is 45:23 +; פֶּה אֶל־פֶּה אֲדַבֵּר בּוֹ Nu 12:8; he creates בְּרוּחַ פִּיו ψ 33:6; he executes judgment בְּשֵׁבֶט פִּיו Is 11:4; especially = command: עָבַר אֶת־פִּי י׳ 1 S 15:24 Nu 14:41; 22:18; 24:13 Pr 8:29; פ׳ (אֶת־) מָרָה 1 S 12:14, 15 Nu 20:24 1 K 13:21 +; cf. 6 d. e.g. Isaiah 1:20
- d. of idols, ψ 115:5; 136:16, 17. e.g. Psalms 115:5
- e. of musical instr. = sound Am 6:5 (cf. 6 d). e.g. Amos 6:5
- 3. of animals: bird Gn 8:11 (carrying), Is 10:14 (chirping); ass Nu 22:28 (speaking); bear, lion 1 S 17:35 (seizing), Am 3:12 (id.), hippop. Jb 40:23 (drinking), crocod. 41:11, 13 (breathing flame); also of human foes, under fig. of ravenous beasts ψ 22:22 Ez 21:27; 34:10; פָּצָה פ׳ עַל ψ 22:14 La 2:16; 3:46; hence of edge of sword, חֶרֶב פִּיּוֹת Pr 5:4 a sword with edges (in sim.), = ח׳ פִּיפִיּוֹת ψ 149:6; cf. Ju 3:16; v. also 6 c (2), infr.; בַּעַל פִּיפִיּוֹת Is 41:15, of מוֹרַג. e.g. Genesis 8:11
- 4. mouth = opening, orifice; of well Gn 29:2, 3(×2), 8, 10; cave Jos 10:18, 22, 27; ravine, abyss Je 48:28 (si vera l., cf. Gie); also of She’ôl ψ 141:7; of a sack Gn 42:27; 43:12, 21; 44:1, 2, 8; ephah Zc 5:8; high-priest’s robe Ex 28:32 + 5 times, cf. prob. ψ 133:2; tunic Jb 30:18; of a round opening also 1 K 7:31(×3) (on text and meaning v. Benz Kit); of mouth of Nile Is 19:7 (others brink); gate of city Pr 8:3 (but read perhaps לִפְנֵי, v. Toy). e.g. Genesis 29:2
- 5.
- a. extremity, end פֶּה לָפֶה from end to end, of a temple 2 K 10:21; city 21:16, מִפֶּה אֶל־פֶּה of land Ezr 9:11. e.g. 2 Kings 10:21
- b. = portion, פִּי שְׁנַיִם †Dt 21:17 2 K 2:9 Zc 13:8. e.g. Deuteronomy 21:17
- 6. with preps.:—
- a. אֶל פִּי, v. infr. d(2).
- b. כְּפִי: (a) according to the command of, 1 Ch 12:23; (b) according to the mouth of, i.e. in proportion to (cf. Assyrian ki-i pi-i, DlHWB325), †Ex 16:21 they gathered it אִישׁ כְּפִי אָכְלוֹ each in proportion to his eating (v 16, 18 לְפִי), Lv 25:52 כְּפִי שָׁנָיו according to the number of his years (cf. v 16 לְפִי); Nu 6:21; 7:5 אִישׁ כְּפִי עֲבֹדָתוֹ (so 2 Ch 31:2), 7:7, 8; 35:8 (all P); Jb 33:6 הֵן־אֲנִי כְפִיךָ לָאֵל I am in the proportion of thee as regards God, i.e. I stand towards God even as thou dost. As conj., כְּפִי אֲשֶׁר, †Ml 2:9 כְּפִי אֲשֶׁר אֵינְכֶם שֹׁמְרִים אֶת־דְּרָכַי acc. as ye do not keep, etc.; and without אשׁר Zc 2:4 כְּפִי אִישׁ־לֹא נָשָׂא רֹאשׁוֹ in such proportion that none did lift up his head (but We Now אֲשֶׁר for אִישׁ, that it, Judah, did not, etc.). e.g. 1 Chronicles 12:23
- c. לְפִי, nearly i.q. כְּפִי (v. לְ 5 i b), but more common (cf. Aramaic לְפוּם, ܠܦܽܘܬ ): (1) †Gn 47:12 לְפִי הַטָּ֑ף, Ex 12:4 ye shall compute אִישׁ לְפִי אָכְלוֹ each according to his eating (according to the quantity which his family will consume), 16:16, 18 Lv 25:16 לְפִי רֹב הַשָּׁנִים, v 16, 51; 27:16 לְפִי זַרְעוֹ, Nu 26:54 Jos 18:4 1 K 17:1 לְפִי דְבָרִי כִּי אִם־, Ho 10:12 קִצְרוּ לְפִי חֶסֶד (‖ לִצְדָקָה), Pr 12:8; 27:21: sq. inf. Nu 9:17 לְפִי הֵעָלוֹת הֶעָנָן = acc. as the cloud was lifted up, Je 29:10. (2) in the phr. לְפִי חֶרֶב according to the mouth, or measure, of the sword, i.e. as the sword devours, without quarter, Gn 34:26 Ex 17:13 Nu 21:24 + often e.g. Genesis 47:12
- d. עַל פִּי: (1) according to (עַל) 1 f a) the mouth of, i.e. (α) the command of, Gn 41:40; 45:21 Ex 17:1; 38:21 Nu 3:16, 39 + (especially P), 2 K 23:35; (β) the evidence or sentence of, Dt 17:6 עַל־פִּי עֵד אֶחָד, 19:15; 21:5 (on עַל־פִּי הַנָּ֑כֶל Am 6:5, v. 2 e supr.). (2) according to the measure of, in accordance with, †Gn 43:7 we told him על פי הדברים האלה according to these words (i.e. the questions Joseph asked), Ex 34:27 in accordance with these words, Lv 27:8 על־פי אשׁר תַּשִּׂיג יַד הנֹּדֵר according to what the hand of the vower can reach to, v 18 (cf. לְפִי 25:16, 51), Dt 17:10, 11 2 S 13:32 (but v. שׂוּמָה), Pr 22:6 חֲנֹךְ לַנַּעַר על פי דרכו. In the same sense אֶל פִּ׳, †Jos 15:13; 17:4; 21:3. e.g. Genesis 41:40
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Word origin
n.m. Jos 9:2 mouth (prob. bilit. [פו, פי] Sta§ 183; NH = BH; Ph. לפי according to; Assyrian pû, mouth; Arabic فُوهٌ, فَاهٌ, فِيهٌ; Ethiopic አፍ; Syriac ܠܦܽܘܬ according to; but also Arabic فَمّ, فُمّ, فِمّ, Biblical Aramaic פֻּם, 𝔗 פּוּמָא; Syriac ܦܽܘܡܳܐ; Mand. פומא NöM § 87);—abs. פ׳ Ex 4:10 +, cstr. פִּי Is 1:20 +; sf. 1 s. פִּי Gn 45:12 +, 2 ms. פִּיךָ 41:40 +, 3 ms. פִּיו 25:28 +, פִּיהוּ Ex 4:15 +, 3 mpl. פִּיהֶם Ju 7:6 +, פִּימוֹ ψ 17:10 + 2 times, etc.; pl. פִּיּוֹת Pr 5:4, פֵיוֹת (שְׁנֵי) Ju 3:16, פִּיפִיּוֹת Is 41:15 ψ 149:6; פִּים 1 S 13:21 (corrupt, v. Dr al.);—
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Derived from פאה (pâʼâh) (H6284) — to shatter.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פֶּה
- c. (b. h.) [opening,] orifice, mouth; speech. Ḥull. 142ᵃ, v. לָחַךְ. Pes. 113ᵇ המדבר אחד בפה ואחד בלב he who speaks one way with his mouth, and another way in his heart. Ex. R. s. 1 (play on בפרך, Ex. I, 13) בפה רך with soft (persuasive) speech; Sot. 11ᵇ. Tanḥ. Kor. 9 עד שהביאתו לפִי הארץ וכ׳ until it (the fire) brought him to the opening of the earth, among those that were swallowed up; Yalk. Num. 752. Sabb. 140ᵇ, sq. בהמה שפִּיהָ יפה a beast whose mouth is clean (that does not drop saliva when eating; oth. opin.: that is fastidious about its food), opp. שפיה רעה; a. v. fr.—Keth. I, 6, a. e. לא מִפּיהָ וכ׳, v. חָיָה. Shebu. IV, 1 מִפִּי עצמו (an oath) out of his own mouth (‘I swear that I know no testimony in thy case’), מפי אחרים administered by others.—בְּעַל פה or על פה by word of mouth. Gitt. 72ᵇ top אי אמר ר׳ יוסי בעל פה whether R. Yose had the same opinion in the case of a verbal condition. Ib. 60ᵇ תורה רוב בכתב ומיעוט על פה of the interpretations of the Law, the larger portion rests on the written text, the smaller on oral tradition. Ib. דברים שבכתב … על פה דברים שבעל פה וכ׳ written things (Biblical passages) must not be recited from memory, verbally transmitted words must not be recited from writing.—תורה שבעל פה (abbrev. שבע"פ) oral law. Yoma 28ᵇ, a. fr., v. כְּתָב.—לְפִי a) according to, in proportion to. B. Bath. 11ᵇ לפי בני אדם in proportion to the number of inhabitants of a house; לפי פתחים in proportion to the number of entrances (of a building); a. fr.—b) because. Snh. VII, 4 לפי שבאת לפיכך וכ׳ … because a human being has gone to ruin through it, therefore &c.; a. fr., v. לְפִיכָךְ.—Trnsf. any orifice. Ab. V, 6 פי הארץ the opening of the earth (that swallowed Korah); פי הבאר the opening for the well (Num. XXI, 16).—Nidd. 16ᵇ רוק בתוך הפה spittle in the mouth, euphem. for blood in the orifice of the matrix. Snh. 100ᵃ (play on ת̇ר̇ופ̇ה̇, Ez. XLVII, 12) להת̇יר̇ פ̇ה̇ של מטה to open the lower orifice (the womb of the childless), opp. פה של מעלה the mouth; ib. להתיר פה עקרות; Men. 98ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. a) פִּיּוֹת. Deut. R. s. 2 (ref. to Zech. XIII, 8) הפ׳ שאומרים שתי וכ׳ those mouths that say, there are two powers (good and evil). Cant. R. to IV, 4 (play on תלפיות, ib.) ספר שאמרוהו פ׳ הרבה the book (תִּלִּים, Psalms) which many mouths have indited (the book of many authors). Ib. ת̇ל̇ שמתפללין בו כל פ׳ the mound (Temple ruins) towards which all mouths are directed in prayer; Ber. 30ᵃ. Ib. 5ᵃ (expl. פיפיות, Ps. CXLIX, 6) חרב של שתי פ׳ a two-edged sword; a. fr.—Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXVIII שתי פ׳ two faces, v. פִּינָּה.—b) פִּיפִיּוֹת. Num. R. s. 18 באותה … פ׳ הרבה at that moment many mouths of the earth were opened (Yalk. ib. 752 פיות).—c) (Chald. pl.) פּוּמִין open vessels; topmost layer in open vessels. Tosef. Ter. V, 11 אם יש [שם] מאה פ׳ וכ׳ if a hundred open vessels are there (in one of which an upper layer of T’rumah has been put) &c.; הפ׳ אסורין the upper layers are forbidden; Y. ib. IV, 43ᵃ bot. e.g. Exodus 1:13
פָּה
- pah, name of a worm in figs. Sabb. 90ᵃ פה דתאני וכ׳ the pah in figs … is dangerous. Ib. קטליה פ"ה לדין (not קטלה) the pah has killed that man.
פה
- , Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ bot., v. פּוּחַ ch.
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Forms in the corpus
The 226 distinct written forms H6310 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 166 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6310, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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- מפיבשת Mᵉphîybôsheth H4648 Mephibosheth
- פואה Pûwʼâh H6312 Puah
- פי החירת Pîy ha-Chîyrôth H6367 Pi-hahiroth
- פיכל Pîykôl H6369 Phichol
- פינחס Pîynᵉchâç H6372 Phinehas
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 425 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 460 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:11
- Exodus 4:10
- Leviticus 24:12
- Numbers 3:16
- Deuteronomy 1:26
- Joshua 1:8
- Judges 1:8
- 1 Samuel 1:12
- 2 Samuel 1:16
- 1 Kings 7:31
- 2 Kings 2:9
- 1 Chronicles 12:23
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
